Notable Quotable 70

Apr 12, 2023

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

- Robert Anton Wilson

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organised theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft'.

- Murray Rothbard

If it moves, privatise it, if it doesn't move, privatise it; since everything either moves or doesn't move, privatise everything.

- Walter Block

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

- Llewellyn Rockwell

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

- Søren Kierkegaard

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

- Iris Murdoch

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

- Ernest Hemingway

The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.

- Hermes Trismegistus

The narrative illusion introduces a “mind virus”, which is a syntactical contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonises the cognitive biases of the targeted individual’s psychology, thus transforming the mental processes of that target.

- James Scott

In most Ages, the normal path to improving one’s financial standing was the same as the path of personal improvement. In anomalous Ages [such as ours], when money is itself all that matters, fortune is made through moral relaxation, lack of consciousness, participation in frauds and scams, and businesses which scandalise all those with an inkling of Traditional Values

— Dr. Manuel Leal Freire, Cartas Políticas